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Jessie Kruse has spent her college career investing in people around her. She has volunteered for four years with the Miracle League of the Triangle, where she plays baseball with special needs children, served as the 2009-2010 Student Director of the Campus Pals program (Big Brothers, Big Sisters / YMCA partnership program) and has been a volunteer Sunday School teacher.
Her passion for serving others motivated Jessie to participate in 2 medicine focused CSLEPS Alternative Service Break trips to Guatemala, serving as the planner and team leader the second year. She created her own third trip to Guatemala where she provided a Diabetes Awareness community development program, and a two day workshop on solar oven making and cooking with three college students and two nurses she recruited. Jessie will spend this summer as the Director of a globally focused summer camp in California and the next year volunteering in a campus ministry here at NC State before heading to medical school.
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Mark’s servant heart has led him to impact many people through volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. He has been an active fundraiser and leader with Habitat for Humanity throughout college. This summer Mark will participate in “Bike & Build” where he will raise a minimum of $4,000 and cycle across America and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and several other community housing organizations to build houses along the way.
As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, Mark understands the experience of displacement and led a service trip to New Orleans to help with reconstruction this past January. As a Caldwell Fellow, Mark has embraced the concept of “service living” by traveling and volunteering in China and Mexico as well as volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club and Kids Café here in Raleigh. Inspired by the fall 2010 summer reading Half the Sky Mark helped found and serves as the first president of Bricks Breaking Boundaries (BBB) a student club raising $25,000 to open a school in Cambodia. Mark will spend the next year as an AmeriCorps volunteer with City Year in California before beginning his career in engineering. |
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Alpha Phi Omega is one of NC State's oldest service fraternities – in fact they just celebrated their 60th year on campus. APO is a co-ed organization founded on the principals of leadership, friendship and service. They are committed to providing service to everyone despite racial, social or economic status. During the 2010-2011 school year, Alpha Phi Omega will complete 5,000 hours of service with approximately 100 active members. This year alone they have recruited 60 new members and directed over 500 hours of their volunteerism toward their founding principle of scouting as they volunteer with Boys & Girl Scouts of America.
APO averages 3 service events each week so that members can all have a weekly volunteer or service experience. Beyond scouting support, APO offers: weekly tutoring at the Salvation Army women’s & children’s shelter, dog training at the SPCA, volunteering with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, The Green Chair Project, Service NC State’s food packaging event with Stop Hunger Now, Carnivore Preservation Trust, Woodchop, Cancer Walks, Nature clean-ups, and Brown Bag Food ministries to mention just a few. On campus they have supported numerous philanthropy events such as Habitat for Humanities Shack-a-Thon, Service Raleigh, Krispy Kreme Challenge and Delta Gamma Sororities “Anchor Spalsh” which benefits the visually impaired. |
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| APO is founded on a tradition of scouting. To fulfill their mission this year, Beth Klienfelter, VP of Scouting, created a weekly partnership with the after school program at Brentwood Boys and Girls Club. Each week brothers of APO tutored student with homework, or hosted planned projects. Those projects included science day, field day, reading day, and garden day. They also set up a way for the young girls at the club to speak with some of the women in APO about the struggles of being a teenage girl. Each project had a unique focus that allowed the students to have fun while learning in an after school setting with their friends. The benefit gained by the Boys and Girls club was simply more help, which meant more opportunities for exciting activities. Influencing the attitudes of the kids at the club has an outward expression in the community and allowed the members of APO to utilize their individual talents to teach and nurture the kids in a positive manner. |
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The STARS Student Leadership Corps is a service and leadership student organization committed to broadening participation in computing. The organization was founded in 2006 as part of the NSF-funded regional STARS Alliance, which has since expanded nationwide. The NC State chapter became a registered student organization in 2008 and has experienced steady growth over the years. It has an active membership of 30 student this year.
- STARS members currently teach technological skills to middle school students at Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School, Durham Nativity School, and Lowe’s Grove Middle School (in partnership with the Citizen Schools non-profit organization).
- STARS members also provide on-going community service outreach programs to teach computer literacy. A partnership with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants provides ongoing sessions to familiarize refugee community participants with computer operation and related concepts.
- A similar program with Raleigh Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center instructs senior citizens in the use of internet communications technologies, such as e-mail and other computer skills. In both programs, it is the first time that some of the participants have used a computer.
- At the undergraduate level, STARS provides mentoring and tutoring opportunities. Undergraduate STARS members are paired with graduate student mentors who provide academic and personal support in weekly meetings. Participation in the STARS program has been shown to improve retention rates of undergraduates across the STARS Alliance, while also producing increased interest and applications to graduate school.
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| The “Shave to Save” event, sponsored by Sigma Nu Fraternity, was held on April 7th, 2011 and was both a philanthropy and volunteer event … a volunteer event that left you bald! The St. Baldrick’s Foundation recruits volunteers from the community to shave their heads in honor of children with cancer. St. Baldrick’s also focuses their resources to benefit local communities providing cancer research grants to places like Duke University Medical Center and UNC Hospitals. Volunteers, or “Shavees” are challenged to collect donations from their family and friends to fund research grants in pediatric cancer. As an organization Sigma Nu values the importance of philanthropy and also drawing attention to the needs of children and research. This year’s event collected over $30,000 and had in excess of 100 people shave their heads. Sigma Nu served as the program sponsors and lead planners with support from a variety of other groups such as: Supercuts at Cameron Village, the CSLEPS Community Outreach Committee, Inter-Residence Council, McDonalds, the band KinGator, and Media Two. |
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